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Web Development with Blazor

By : Jimmy Engström
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Web Development with Blazor

By: Jimmy Engström

Overview of this book

Blazor is an essential tool if you want to build interactive web apps without JS, but it comes with its own learning curve. Web Development with Blazor will help you overcome most common challenges developers face when getting started with Blazor and teach you the best coding practices. You’ll start by learning how to leverage the power of Blazor and explore the full capabilities of both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. Then you’ll move on to the practical part, which is centred around a sample project – a blog engine. This is where you’ll apply all your newfound knowledge about creating Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly projects, the inner working of Razor syntax, and validating forms, as well as creating your own components. You’ll learn all the key concepts involved in web development with Blazor, which you’ll also be able to put into practice straight away. By showing you how all the components work together practically, this book will help you avoid some of the common roadblocks that novice Blazor developers face and inspire you to start experimenting with Blazor on your other projects. When you reach the end of this Blazor book, you'll have gained the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1:The Basics
4
Section 2:Building an Application with Blazor
14
Section 3:Debug, Test, and Deploy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create forms. We made API calls to get and save data.

We built custom input controls and leveraged some of the new functionality in .NET 5 to get Bootstrap styling on our controls. Most business apps use forms, and by using data annotations, we can add logic close to the data (and even use annotations when we create the database, as we did in Chapter 3, Introducing Entity Framework Core).

The functionality that Blazor offers when it comes to validation and input controls will help us build amazing applications and will give our users a great experience. You may notice that right now the admin pages are wide open, so the next step is going to be securing our blog with login, but we will come back to that in Chapter 8, Authentication and Authorization.

In the next chapter, we will create an API so that we can get data in our Blazor WebAssembly project.